If you’re a fly fisherman, there are few rivers this side of the Rocky Mountains that compare with Michigan’s Au Sable River. There’s a particular nine-mile stretch east of Grayling known as the Holy Waters.

The water is clean, cold, easy to wade through, and packed with more than 100 pounds of wild trout per acre.

Tom Baird is with the Anglers of the Au Sable. It’s a fishing club with 800 members from all over the world. He says the clean water provides the perfect habitat for the bugs that trout love to eat from March through October. Read more …